After a brief two-weekend summer break, Valentino Rossi cont🐟inues his quest to end Yamaha's MotoGP win drought at Brno this weekeꦇnd.

Rossi starts the second half of the season h𓄧olding second in th✅e world championship, but a distant 46 points behind Honda's Marc Marquez, having not won a race in over a year.

"First of a💞ll, I needed a longer holiday!" said Rossi. "Everybody is saying this, but this is the way it is. I took one week off, and I would have enjoyed some m💛ore time, but now we need to focus again. 

The Italian, who will be hoping for long-awaited electronic updates to help with acceleration at the Monday test, added:&nbsღp;

"Brno is a great track. Last year I was fast, but with MotoGP you never💯 🅺know. We'll just have to see what happens. On Monday we'll also have an extra day of testing at this circuit, which will be important. 

"It's going to be a busy couple o♐f weeks, especially now that we have two GPs in a row. It will be crucial for the championship and also for Yamaha that we'll do some good races here and in Austria. 

"We want to secure our fi🥀rst ra൲ce win of the season."

Rossi's most recent Brno v𒅌ictory came d🐻uring his 2009 title season, followed by podiums in 2014, 2015 and 2016, plus a fourth place in last year's wet-dry raceafter qualifying second on the grid.